Playing into the familiar trope of “getting the team together,” the mission pulled a real-world historical event into a framework that was recognizable, fitting right in between the TV documentary style narrative delivery and a video game mission pieced out into several stages. Early in the French campaign, for example, I was tasked with gathering troops with special abilities one-by-one to fight in a duel. The Empire Strikes Back (also known as Star Wars: Episode V The Empire Strikes Back) is a 1980 American epic space opera film directed by Irvin Kershner and written by Leigh Brackett and Lawrence Kasdan, based on a story by George Lucas.The sequel to Star Wars (1977), it is the second film in the Star Wars film series and the fifth chronological chapter of the 'Skywalker Saga'. All of these are ways of warping history into incremental stories that have the feel of video game narratives.
They all have a distinct tone to them: the English conflict with the Normans is the story of pitched battles on opposite shores the French campaign centers on national myth and heroism the Mongol campaign is about one cunning maneuver after the other and the Moscow campaign is the story of one city-state that grows to be a power.
I spent the bulk of my time with “Age of Empires IV” working through those campaigns - four distinct sets of missions that ask you to command four different empires through some critical moments in their history.
